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Re:Translators Wanted at LinkedIn. The Pay? $0 an Hour. by physcab on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:04AM (#678458)
Both points made above are valid. While not a great PR move, LinkedIn is entitled to make that kind of decision and honestly I hope they get what they paid for (nothing).

Something that the free market does not take into account though is fairness or ethics. I'm not an economist, but I have enough sense to know when people are being taken advantage of and that I think is wrong.

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Re:Translators Wanted at LinkedIn. The Pay? $0 an Hour. by endtime on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:22AM (#678479)
>Something that the free market does not take into account though is fairness or ethics.

Actually, the free market is the most fair of all systems, at least for some reasonable definitions of "fair".

>I have enough sense to know when people are being taken advantage of

No one is being forced to do anything. This is a consensual arrangement. So how is anyone being taken advantage of?

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